• rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz
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        22 hours ago

        not just bendaryl or dxm or whatever else, people get out of their trip what have put in their heads beforehand. if you read about hat man a lot you will see hat man

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        1 day ago

        He’s seen in many other situations too. Benadryl is just super commonly known.

        Someone I talked to online said they saw him multiple times in their life sober, and every time there’d be a death in the family or really bad thing would happen. They didn’t see him as evil, just as an omen/warning.

        • Danarchy@lemmy.nz
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          22 hours ago

          I done seent this guy when sleep-paralyzed, but in my case it was my brain misinterpreting a coat hanging on my bedroom door

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            21 hours ago

            I’ve been there. But my mind always interpreted it as a semi-humanoid/semi-formless demon. Definitely no hat.

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          19 hours ago

          I haven’t seen a hat man, but I get migraine with aura and sometimes “see” a moving shadow sort of shaped like a person out of the corner of my eye. Of course, if I try to look directly, there’s nothing there.

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            11 hours ago

            yeah, my sleep paralysis demon looks more like Cousin Itt (without the hat) and gets arms as the occasion warrants (stealing things, making tea, i’m trying to remember. we’ve spent some time together but it’s been a while)

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      People often ask chatbots questions and treat their responses as genuine artificial intelligence